Arlington, VA · September 18, 2026 —Sedaro today announced that it has been selected for a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) opportunity by the Air Force Research Laboratory's SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force. Under the selection, Sedaro will expand and accelerate Space Systems Command's (SSC) ability to analyze increasingly complex defense architectures and dynamic missions. The effort will scale the Space Systems Integration Office's (SSIO) System-of-Systems Engineering (SoSE) Platform to support additional programs, organizations, and workflows.
The initial effort represents up to $45 million in combined program funding, including STRATFI funding and additional U.S. Government investment led by SSIO. Built on Sedaro's scalable cloud infrastructure and designed around open interfaces and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) principles, the SoSE Platform allows Government and industry contributors to integrate, extend, and evolve the models, workflows, and capabilities they steward within a shared enterprise environment. This enables mission-level analysis of how systems and capabilities developed across programs and organizations perform together under representative mission conditions.
The STRATFI builds on Sedaro's existing work with SSIO and prior Space Force digital-engineering efforts. A core objective is to create a connected mission-engineering ecosystem where validated models, workflows, standards, and integrations can be contributed, composed, and reused across organizational boundaries.
“This STRATFI is a significant validation of Sedaro's approach to enterprise mission engineering. We are building on our work in demanding Space Force applications to establish collaborative operational infrastructure that can support more missions, more organizations, and more consequential decisions across the national security space enterprise.
Robbie Robertson·CEO & Co-founder·Sedaro
STRATFIs act as a force multiplier for SSIO's enterprise integration mission, bringing greater scale, speed, and rigor to the processes that deliver new integrated capabilities for the warfighter. It also positions the capability for Phase III transition and sustained non-SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Government funding.
About SpaceWERX
SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a division of AFWERX, partners with startups, small businesses and nontraditional vendors to accelerate commercial space technologies for Guardians. Headquartered in Los Angeles, SpaceWERX connects industry innovation with defense needs to deliver capabilities faster. In partnership with Space Systems Command's Commercial Space Office, SpaceWERX bridges innovation and acquisition to accelerate capability adoption. In fiscal year 2025, SpaceWERX awarded more than 300 contracts totaling $510 million. For more information, visit spacewerx.us.
About Sedaro
Sedaro empowers engineers, operators, and leaders to deliver decisive warfighter capability by aligning around a unified view of mission performance across design, acquisition, testing, and operations. Sedaro replaces fragmented tools with a unified, cloud-native environment for designing, simulating, and validating missions at scale. Actively deployed across DoW, USSF, and IC programs supporting space, missile defense, joint all-domain operations, and force design, Sedaro delivers national security enterprise integration at 100x scale and 10x delivery speed.